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Cerebro-Soft Skills of Higher Secondary Students

This study aimed to investigate the Cerebro-soft skill of higher secondary students which leads to whether the brain dominance of the students influences their thinking or thinking pattern and which leads to show, the problem-solving skills of the individual or not?  This may have the possibility of predicting the creation of unified thinkers or a unique pattern of the people on its own.  Cerebro-soft skills (Brain dominance, thinking styles and problem-solving skills) among higher secondary students do have an impact on their academic achievements.  This study targeted the higher secondary students as population and Kanyakumari, Tirunelveli, Thuthukudi and Virudhunagar districts of Tamilnadu, India as the areas from which the data was collected.  In this research, the above-mentioned population consisted of 135 subjects for this study.  Three unique questionnaires were used to collect the data i.e., the Cognitive style questionnaire (1989) by Loren D. Crane, thinking styles by Robert J Sternberg (2009) and Problem-solving skills by Vengo Regis and Annaraja (2010).  The result of the study revealed that the significant impacts found with the residence of the students in their intuitive problem-solving skills and medium of instructions of the students in their right brain dominance, and type of schools of the students in their right brain dominance, sensing problem-solving skills and thinking problem-solving skills, the significant positive correlation co-efficient found between oligarchic thinking style and anarchic thinking style, hierarchic thinking style and anarchic thinking style, monarchic thinking style and anarchic thinking style which was 64.4%, 46.9%, 44% and 35.8% respectively.